Headline: Emmanuel Macron is the rightful heir to the spirit of 1968
Sub-headline: Today’s protesters want to cling on to the past, not seize the future
You needn’t read Mr Stephens essay to get the point of his advocacy/defense of Macron’s putative Neo-Liberal Revolution. Just look at Pinn’s sloppily executed cartoon and you have plumed the depths of this defense of Macron’s retrograde Neo-Liberal Revolution. The 68’rs were for the future: how the Conservative Party line on ’68 has ‘evolved’ into self-serving dishonesty! This reader wonders, what the Financial Times editors of ’68 said while those demonstrators were on the march? I was 23 when this event happened, and recall reading the hysterical pronouncements of the bourgeois press. Many of the members of what was to become the Nouvelle Droite were demonstrating in ’68:
Those un-deseriving strikers, of today, are for their entrenched, not to speak of unearned entitlements, that now impede Mr. 37%’s Revolution!
Why retrograde? That Neo-Liberalism seeks to supplant the Republican Tradition with the dismal failure of The Free Market Delusion, in sum, a nihilism! We, in both America and Britain, still live in the dismal watershed of that political/economic/moral collapse. Call Neo-Liberalism what it is Economic Social Darwinism.
Mr. Stephens, as full time propagandist for The Financial Times, demonstrates the political desperation of both himself, and his publication, by invoking ’68 as somehow being the historical corollary of Macron ‘s bogus revolution! Macron’s Jupertarian, read authoritarian, Politics is being challenged by ‘the great unwashed’ Unionists: aux barricades!
Old Socialist
https://www.ft.com/content/df8e7c60-4305-11e8-803a-295c97e6fd0b
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